Before I was born, before my parents were born, today's guest and her family were

abducted by the Nazis, beginning an unbelievable journey of over 90 years. On this episode, Edith Eager is here to teach us how to make

the choice for compassion. This is Coaching for Leaders episode 336.

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Maximizing Human Potential

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your

host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show gives you

access to the practical wisdom that will

empower you to become a better leader. I am so glad that you tuned in for this

conversation because today a conversation one that every leader I think I

dare say every leader would benefit from hearing because so much of what we do, the work we do as leaders is about

compassion, it is about forgiveness in some ways, and it is always about dare I say love. The work we do to

develop people to care about people and today's guest is someone who perhaps more than any guest I've ever had on this show.

Not only knows about this from firsthand experience, but has developed such an eloquence and an ability to speak to love and forgiveness and compassion in a way that I think we will probably never hear from any other on the show. I am really thrilled to welcome

Edith eager to the show. Edith was 16 years old when the Nazis came to her

hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an internment center and then to Auschwitz.

Her parents were sent to the gas chamber by Joseph Menagalay soon after they arrived at the camp.

Hours later, Mangalay that Edy dance a waltz to the blue Danube

and rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners.

These women later helped save Edy's life.

Edy and her sister survived Auschwitz and managed to live until the American troops liberated the camps in 1945

and found Edy in a pile of dying bodies. One of the few living Holocaust survivors to remember

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